The popular social networking site Facebook just announced a Chinese version, but similar Chinese-based Web sites such as Xiaonei and Hainei have been struggling there. However, since April, UCenter Home, an open source social network service based on PHP and MySQL, is pushing open social networking in China.
Read more »Build a High Performance Telephony System with New Book on OpenSER
Building Telephony Systems with OpenSER is a new book from Packt, which acts as a step-by-step guide to building a high performance Telephony System. Written by Flavio E. Goncalves, this book teaches users how to develop a fast and flexible Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server using OpenSER.
Read more »Novell FUDs OpenSUSE to Sell SLES and SLED Licences
Novell is already explaining to readers why OpenSUSE isn't suitable for the enterprise
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SeaMonkey 1.1.10 Released
"Today, the SeaMonkey project released a new version of its all-in-one internet suite. SeaMonkey 1.1.10 closes several security vulnerabilities and fixes several smaller problems found in previous versions..."
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'Hospital risk' from radio tags
"Lifesaving equipment in hospitals may be switched off by radio-frequency devices used to track people and machines, Dutch scientists claim..."
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Microsoft Corporation: A Licensing Company
Microsoft seeks to made money by selling licences to open one's documents
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[rails-on-emacs] emacs-rails forked
"I have decided to fully rewrite rails-emacs because this project began as a small set of functions, expanding it is more and more and more. The code became very confused, addition of new opportunities and
correction of bugs has turned to a headache..."
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One live DVD, one ton of Linux games
LinuX-Gamers Live is a live DVD from Germany based on Arch Linux that includes nothing but games. Version 0.9.3 was released in June and provides an excellent means of sampling Linux games or setting up a home arcade, although a few of the games wouldn't run on my machine.
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Creating web pages, the right way
Have you ever felt that warm fuzzy feeling of knowing that your code is error-free and complies with the latest standards?
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How To Prevent Brute Force Attacks
A brute force attack is an attempt to log into a secure system by making lots of attempts in the hopes of eventual success. It’s not a sophisticated type of attack, hence the name "brute force." For example, if you have a login process that requires a username and password, there is a limit as to the possible number of username/password combinations.
Read more »Are Linux Users More Productive?
I’ve been wondering if using Linux actually makes me more productive. I can think of a few reasons why a Linux user may be more productive but I can also counter those reasons with ways running Linux can make you unproductive.
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Open Source Applications: Catfish
Every now and then I bump into a nice, little, relatively unknown but impressive application that makes my life a little bit easier. Catfish is one of those.
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How To Block Cookies From Unwanted Websites With SafeSquid Proxy Server
SafeSquid's Cookie Filter Section, allows you to control exchange of cookies between users and websites. You can define what websites are allowed / denied to exchange cookies with users, either to enhance security, or to disable the users from logging into their personal accounts.
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Why enterprise still cannot accept Linux.
Linux is ready for the desktop. It can handle one hundred percent of all business tasks. If you are willing to break the proprietary nipple sucking that is. Yet enterprise still pulls out the same old excuses for not adopting Linux.
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Linux’s dirty little secret
...there are a few aspects of Linux that do annoy/frustrate/anger me/make me hulk out* (delete as overall mood dictates), and one of these aspects is so core to an OS that I’m surprised that it hasn’t been addressed already. I’m talking about installing applications.
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